Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke
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In this ?chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty years?twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's show more dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates h show lessTags
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An indepth look at the growing scarcity of freshwater and the increasing privatization and corporate control of this nonrenewable resource.
After explaining how water ownership is becoming privatized,
"Blue Gold ... illuminates the dilemma we find ourselves in, ... [and].. arms us with the information and strategies we need to make a difference in our own country and globally. There is only one action to take, the authors argue in this cogent and impassioned manifesto: we must become fresh water's responsible custodians."
(Blue Plaent Project. May 4, 2009. http://www.blueplanetproject.net/resources/articles/Blue_Gold.html)
"Blue Gold ... illuminates the dilemma we find ourselves in, ... [and].. arms us with the information and strategies we need to make a difference in our own country and globally. There is only one action to take, the authors argue in this cogent and impassioned manifesto: we must become fresh water's responsible custodians."
(Blue Plaent Project. May 4, 2009. http://www.blueplanetproject.net/resources/articles/Blue_Gold.html)
Report on the global water crisis and the commodification of the world's water supply.
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Jul 11, 2008Dutch
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Maude Barlow is the bestselling author of 20 books. She is a councillor with the World. Future Council and sits on the board of Food Water Watch and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. Barlow served as the senior water advisor to the UN General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right. She is show more the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and current chancellor of Brescia University College. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario. show less
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Tony Clarke is the founder and director of the Polaris Institute in Ottawa. He holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago and is the recipient of Sweden's Right Livelihood Award, the "alternative Nobel Prize." Among his most recent books is Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water with Maude Barlow. He lives in show more Ottawa, Ontario. show less
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- Dedication
- For Kimy Pernia Domico, tireless fighters for Indigenous rights to water, who was "disappeared" by Colombian paramilitary forces on June 2, 2001. You are dearly missed.
- First words
- Suddenly it is so clear: the world is running out of fresh water.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The growing number of citizens and groups around the world who belong to the Blue Planet Project and other organizations fighting for a water-secure future believe in the beauty of this dream: that our global water crisis will become the source of global peace; that finally humanity will bow before Nature and learn to live at peace within the limits Nature gives us and with one another; and that through our work together, the peoples of the world will declare that the sacred waters of life are the common property of the earth and all species, to be preserved for all generations to come.
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- Economics, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Business
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- 333.91 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Economics of land and energy Other natural resources Water energy - Hydrologic
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- HD1691 .B37 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Agriculture Utilization and culture of special classes of
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